Tag: writing

Have you ever been so engrossed in something that you completely miss the other person in the room, someone who’s been calling your name for a minute with no reply? How about getting sucked into a book and wondering where the afternoon went when you put it down? If you have, then you’re familiar with flow. For those of you who may not have had the experience or know the term, this post is going to examine flow: what it is, how you get it, and how it can improve your writing.

I will admit that when I started working on my first novel, I really had no idea what I was getting into. I’d written plenty of novella length pieces before, generally between 25-30k words, and I naively assumed that my process for writing those would work for writing a longer form piece. Boy, was I wrong.